katie978
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For so many Americans, while losing weight is incredibly simple on paper (or the computer screen), it's nearly impossible in real life. Many people who lose weight via diet and exercise immediately gain it all back, and more. Very few people who achieve significant weight loss can maintain it.
With so many health risks caused or increased by obesity, it's not that hard to see why some people choose to have weight loss surgury. By making the choice to have a potentially deadly surgury, they are commiting themselves to a lifetime of limited eating choices. It's not really the "easy way out"...although it can produce remarkable results, it has lots of potential complications and the side effects-months of nausea and diarrhea- are not too much fun either.
Many people who chose to have gastric bypass have other health issues that make exercise much more difficult, if not impossible. To be considering it, they must have tried and failed dieting dozens of times. They typically have other health issues such as Type 2 diabetes, heart problems, or other issues.
To those that say dieting is easy...obviously they haven't tried it. It sounds simple, true enough, and with enough preservence and self-discipline, it can be done successfully. Use more than you take in. Sure. If it were that simple, more than half of Americans wouldn't be overweight. If it were that simple, everyone here on the forums would be perfect and skinny-not BBWs and SSBBWs who are "happy with their weight" despite it limiting their mobilty and endangering their health. Perhaps dieting is simple for you... for me, it's hard work. Oh, wait. You're happy weighing 300 pounds and only being able to shop at specialty stores. I forgot.
However, everyone who says that morbidly obese people should just stick to a diet...it's not that hard, it's similar to saying that a smoker should just stick to gum. A depressed person should just get over it. A grieving person should just suck it up-life is simple, after all...people live, people die. Losing weight is not that easy.
I'm not advocating GB surgury (though it surely sounds like it). I do think of it as a way out, as a kind of quick fix, but I admire the people who have the cajones to do it. Personally, I think that more people should try and do it the natural way...but I'll concede that finding motivation month after month is very challenging. I should know...I'm not just the spokesperson, I'm a client! I've lost about 45 pounds since November (just hit Weight Watchers goal, woo-hoo!) Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, I slipped up sometimes. But doing it myself makes me feel way more bad-ass.
Ps. hopelessfool, many of the diets you've listed sound ridiculously unsafe. If you're only eating 500 calories a day, your body goes into starvation mode, hence the weight gain. Your body still needs calories to work...just not so many as usual. Find a healthy, non-fad diet, and stick to it. I imagine your results might be better sticking to a moderate diet than trying to adhere to a super-severe one. I did the 1,000 calories a day thing for months...felt fatigued all the time. Not so healthy.
PPS. "Exorcising" probably won't help people lose weight...I don't believe the extra pounds I'm carry around were caused by the demon Fazuzuu. They were caused by the demon Dunkin' Donuts. But I don't think that can be exorcized.
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